Word: bucked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sincere, hearty, full of gallant buck-you-uppo, most of Priestley's remarks have been right down the U. S. alley. On food: "You can eat yourself sick if you want to, but of course it is very nice to have a parcel of America's noblest produce including perhaps a bottle of rye or bourbon." On parashots: "There we were-ploughman and parson, shepherd and clerk, turning out at night as our forefathers had often done before us, to keep watch and ward over the sleeping hills and fields and homesteads...
Nearly completed was Nobel Prize-winning Author Pearl Buck's "Book of Hope"-a collection of 1,000 signatures, each representing a donation of $100 or more to the American Bureau for Medical Aid to China. Both book and money will be sent to Mme. Chiang Kaishek...
...Government is like a crippled octopus that cannot quite coordinate all its arms. Many of these arms last week were struggling with the vast problem of rearming the U. S. One, however, found time to buck the trend. The Department of Justice fired an anti-trust suit at a defense industry: Pullman, Inc., a holding company; subsidiary Pullman Co., owner and operator of virtually all U. S. sleeping cars; and subsidiary Pullman-Standard Car Manufacturing Co., No. 1 U. S. freight and sleeping car maker...
...thousands of militant citizens clamored for something to do for Defense. They besieged local recruiting stations, deluged the War and Navy Departments in Washington with letters. A great many wanted to be the equivalent of a hostess on an Army bomber. Few considered enlisting for the lowly job of buck private or gob. Some were too old; many had special talents which would be wasted in the ranks. But buck privates and gobs are what the Army & Navy want. The Army already has so many (117,000) reserve officers that it is issuing no more commissions (except...
Winston Churchill is not to be confused with Great Britain's Prime Minister, but often has been. No kin, they are old acquaintances. Britain's Churchill once suggested that one of them change names; U. S. Churchill, as the senior, passed the buck. Britain's Churchill thenceforth signed his books Winston S. (for Spencer). In 1903, when Winston banqueted Winston S. at Boston's Copley-Plaza, Winston S. got the bill...